Murder By Numbers


from the ABC set The Long and the Short of It...

There's a dime-store novel called Random Chance
and the hero's an unlikely type,
he invents a craze, the Probability Dance;
his middle name is |.

Random meets a girl named Pi:
they marry for Determinism,
they have only sons, and I know why,
it was accidentalism.

One day Pi gets Random's number
she knows he's just a fake,
the real thing is Possibility's Rumba,
maybe she made a mistake.

It ends with a gun, a dualist split
and bodies wrapped in Markov's chains
there's foolish talk of a Mafia hit
that her memory loss explains.

Footnote:

| is an ascii character. It has a name.

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